Farm Workers Movement Vocab

below the usual or required standard

• substandard

• labor union

• boycott

• nonviolence

make arrangements or preparations for an event or activity

• Teatro Campesino

• boycott

• organize

• fast

the use of peaceful means, not force, to bring about political or social change

• labor union

• nonviolence

• symbolic

• fast

an organized association of workers, often in a trade or profession, formed to protect and further their rights and interests

• Teatro Campesino

• boycott

• organize

• labor union

serving as a symbol

• symbolic

• substandard

• La Causa

• boycott

abstain from all or some kinds of food or drink

• labor union

• fast

• orgnaize

• National Farm Workers Association

withdraw from commercial or social relations with (a country, organization, or person) as a punishment or protest

• labor union

• boycott

• organize

• symbolic

a movement to organize Mexican American farm workers, originated in California's San Joaquin Valley in 1962

• substandard

• nonviolence

• La Causa

• fast

the farm workers union that will become the United Farm Workers (UFW)

• substandard

• organize

• National Farm Workers Association

• nonviolence

a Chicano theatre company in California. Performing in both English and Spanish, El Teatro Campesino was founded in 1965 as the cultural arm of the United Farm Workers and the Chicano Movement

• fast

• Teatro Campesino

• labor union

• National Farm Workers Association